While Venezuela’s agony is all the evidence we should ever need of socialism’s disastrous outcomes, an even more crushing indictment lies in the stark contrast between Venezuela and Chile, which has embraced broadly market-friendly policies over the last few decades. In their essay in CapX Marian Tupy and Alexander Hammond highlight the vast […]
Author: Erik Sass
Something good actually happened: Trump lifts tariffs on Mexico, Canada
Free trade supporters and internationalists got a glimmer of hope this week with U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to lift tariffs on steel and aluminum from Mexico and Canada. So will the rest of the world please start making sense now? We can only hope! Trump originally imposed the tariffs in […]
North America trade harmony would bolster U.S. in China trade war
TES GeoPolicy Editor Daniel McGroarty, a former White House staffer and congressional expert on resource and defense issues, argues in The Hill that a return to harmony in North American trade pacts would strengthen Donald Trump’s hand in ongoing U.S.-China trade talks. It also puts the U.S. in a better position to handle […]
This Is South Africa’s Last Chance To Turn Back
Richard Tren, TES Contributor South Africans head to the polls this week and the ruling ANC will almost certainly be returned to power, despite years of low economic growth, high unemployment, and endemic corruption. Loyalty to the party that Nelson Mandela led and that helped to usher in democracy trumps, for the […]
EU jeopardizing innovation with IP threats
Philip Stevens, Executive Director, Geneva Network. The European Parliament in April voted through a proposal that will allow generic companies to manufacture and export outside the EU copies of medicines that are still essentially patent protected in Europe. This vote around what’s known as the Supplementary Protection Certificate (SPC) Export Waiver may […]
China Chastened? Cha Right!
In recent weeks the Middle Kingdom has suffered some mild diplomatic setbacks in its Belt and Road Initiative as well as its efforts to resolve the drawn out trade war with America. But all the evidence, including China’s own long history, suggests these reversals are simply temporary delays; if anything the controversies will simply […]
Zelensky must tackle corruption (no joke)
By Christina Pushaw, TES Contributor With Vladimir Zelensky’s landslide win in Ukraine’s presidential runoff on April 22, Ukraine appears more united than ever. The political newcomer, who plays a fictional president in a popular TV series, beat incumbent Petro Poroshenko — among voters of every age group and all but one […]
NO FRACKING WAY: “De facto ban” on UK shale gas
Part of the marvelous power of the state is its ability to stop things it doesn’t like in the absence of any formal directive, a magical power is known as bureaucracy. The UK has a fine example in its domestic shale gas industry, or rather lack of one: although legal on paper, the development of […]
Protect IP or give up miracle cures yet uninvented
In a piece for the Morning Consult, Philip Thompson of the Property Rights Alliance highlights the importance of intellectual property in powering innovation, especially in key categories like medicine: Ja’Ceon Golden, a “bubble boy” cured with healthy genes delivered via a “hijacked” (and otherwise harmless) HIV virus, is a poster boy for medical innovation. […]
Extinction Rebellion, Or, The Impotence of Being Earnest
Extinction Rebellion, Or, The Impotence of Being Earnest Sensible sounding folk can still fall prey to group think By Richard Tren, TES Contributor There is something utterly delightful about a warm spring day in England, perhaps because they are so rare. With the blossoms out and the sun shining, the […]